Broken pieces of yesterday's life

From the first notes he played during his London debut at a trendy nightspot early in 1967, Jimi Hendrix was a sensation. His appearance had a lot to do with it: blues-dazzled Brits lionized black American musicians, and when one showed up, as Hendrix did, in an outfit even wilder than those being marketed on Carnaby Street, that alone was enough to turn heads. Then there was the music, and...